To develop and evaluate a questionnaire assessing nurses' self-efficacy for labor support and to describe nurses' perceptions of factors assisting and preventing the provision of labor support.
Two surveys completed by participants.
Five Canadian hospitals.
For Phase 1, 81% (55/68) of maternity nurses at one hospital participated; for Phase 2, 88% (152/173) of labor and delivery (L&D) nurses at four hospitals participated.
Phase 1, psychometric properties of a new scale; Phase 2, nurses' self-efficacy for labor support and content analysis of nurses' comments.
Phase 1: The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the self-efficacy scale was .98, with a test-retest correlation of r(s) = .93. Higher (more positive) self-efficacy scores were found for L&D nurses compared with postpartum nurses, p